Posterior Hip Impingement Test

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Posterior Hip Impingement Test

Prone version of the posterior hip impingement test

• Posterior Hip Impingement Test
• Posterior Hip Labral Tear Test
• Posterior Impingement Test
• Posterior Hip Impingement Sign
• Hip Posterior Impingement Test
• Posterior FAI Test

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Purpose

• Evaluate the Acetabular Labrum as a cause of hip pain

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Description

Supine Description

• The patient is supine at the edge of the examination table
• The examiner passively brings the affected hip into
  • Hyperextension, external rotation, and slight abduction
• Positive
  • Reproduces the patient's posterior hip or deep buttock pain

Prone Description

• The patient is lying prone
• Hip and knee are in extension
• Examiner passively extends, abducts and externally rotates hip
• Positive test:
  • Reproduction of patients pain

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Pathology

• Acetabular Labrum Tear
• Posterior Femoroacetabular Impingement

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Evidence

• Unknown

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See Also

• Physical Exam Hip
• Hip Pain (Main)
• Hip Anatomy

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